Baby Feeding

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From the community

Recent discussions

Update on Feeds?

Can I get an update on how many oz your 4-5 month old is drinking , how many hours apart and total oz over 24 hours pleeeeease

Those of you who are bottle feeding, could you share your rough feeding schedule (milk and food)? My daughter has 4 feeds @ around 7.30/11.30/3.30 and 7 - she usually has around 210ml at each so over 800ml a day. She also eats like a horse (3 meals). Not sure how to approach dropping one of these? Or if I even should be? I know they say milk is the most important source of nutrients at this age but my daughter does eat really well…

Baby drinking small volumes?

I’m struggling to increase my 11 week olds milk volume (formula fed). He’s taking anywhere between 50 - 120mls every 2-3 hours. He usually wakes twice to feed overnight and has approx 100 - 120mls per feed but he’s got no daytime routine. He very rarely experiences reflux but he does need breaks between feeds to burp & rest. He seems to lose interest in feeding after being interrupted.

Based on the formula guidance he should be having 5 feeds of 150 - 180mls over 24 hours at this age. He never gets past 120mls.

He’s gaining weight fine, but I’m trying to establish a feeding routine and it’s tricky when his feeding is sporadic. Am I being unrealistic?

Gone off the bottle

I EBF we've always done a bottle before bedtime. She's all of a sudden gone off the bottle. I've tried teats, warm breast milk, cold, just formula/ mixed, even tried it in her straw cup that she loves but she won't take it 😅 has anyone had similar and any tips xx

Milk

How many oz is you baby having in 24 hours? My little boy is having 31oz and finishing them all not sure if I should offer more?

Switching to formula

I will have exclusively fed my 3 month old breastmilk in 2 weeks time and I think for my mental health I want to combo feed. Does anyone have any tips on this? I currently pump 7 times within 24 hours and would like to reduce that so I can live without having to pump every 3 hours. Any tips or advice would be appreciated. Xxx

Formula fed babies

How old are your babies and how many oz are they on per feed?

My little one is 5months old (today🥹) and currently on 5oz
She only goes 2.5 hours between feeds, going between finishing every last sip but also sometimes not completely finishing her bottles.
I’ve started to introduce one 6oz bottle at random times during the day. Wondering if I need to up her to 6oz for all bottles during the day??? And see how she gets on or whether to wait until she’s consistently finishing 5oz before increasing.

I’m not bothered about her feeding so regularly as I’m well aware of ‘responsive feeding’ and not aiming to increase feed amount to get longer stretches

Im just curious and intrigued how other babies are

Do you combi feed

Hey just after some advice really does anyone else combi feed their babies breast and formula if so how do you do it do you breast feed during the day and formula on a night please help

How much is your baby eating?

I feel so stressed when I see these TikTok’s of peoples babies eating huge bottles like 7-8oz per feeding and my LO is barely eating 4oz MAYBE 5. He is combo fed but whether it’s formula or breastmilk he won’t go past 5oz. His pediatrician is happy with his weight gain and he sleeps pretty decent at night, but I can’t help but wonder why he doesn’t eat as much as other babies 😅 (he’s 5 months btw)

Cleaning teethers

Hi 😊 How do you all clean teethers? Do they need sterilising? I have the ones with water in them so I've read that they shouldn't go in the steriliser... suggestions, please? X

Milk!

Hi guys! So my son is currently 2 and half months and I usually give him 4 oz of milk, I realised he’s been downing the whole bottle and keeps sucking when it’s finished. So I decided that maybe we should try 5oz, but when I put it up to 5oz he’d only drink a little bit of it.
So a lot of milk got wasted. (Which hurts especially with the prices of formula now!!)

I then went back to 4 and the same thing happened. What should I do? Should I stick with 4? Or continue trying 5oz?

Medical formula

My baby has been put on Nutramigen formula but he is absolutely refusing it! He is very fussy with change to his milk he wont take milk that’s slightly thicker or with any medicine in either. Any tips?🫠

What milk bottle should I use?

Hi, my son still takes a bottle before his bed time. I was wondering what bottles do you guys use? He uses the MAM bottle with the X teat. Do I need to change it to something else since he’s now 14 months? Thanks

Big baby

My big boy is 17lbs 2oz at 18 weeks. Formula intake can vary each day. Between 26-32oz per day just depending. He shows most hunger through the day and then his last bottle he struggles. For example, he had 5oz today at 3.15, finished off the other 3oz at 4.15 and then at 6.15 he only took an 1oz. He went to bed at 6.30pm and he will sleep until about 7-7.30am (I know he’s a good sleeper but is more or less awake most of the day lol) does this sound like an ok formula intake ?? My other little boy was more consistent with what he would take

Unopened formula that won’t be used.

Hey anyone who has moved there 1 year olds onto cows milk, if you had any formula left that wasn’t opened what did you do with it? It feels like such a waste to just throw away? We used the Actimel anti reflux ones prescribed just not sure what to do with two we haven’t opened.

Phones

I know our kids are only 2 or turning 2 but this question constantly goes round my head and I wanna know other people views on it.

What age would you give your child a phone?

Thank you for any contribution.

EDIT:
I’m not wanting to give my 2 year old a phone, I was thinking ahead just wanted to put that out there.

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